Locks, Keys, Chains & Manacles

Equipment Prices and Weights

These are Pathfinder 1e equipment prices for fastening doors, securing loads, and restraining prisoners. Choose the chain or manacles first, then the lock: for most manacles, the price of a lock is additional. Standard, masterwork, and mithral manacles resist escape and breaking differently; follow the item links for their exact rules instead of treating the prices as interchangeable. Other RPG editions use their own equipment rules.

Chains

Item	Cost	Weight
Chain (10 ft.)	30 gp	2 lbs.
Chain, Breakaway	65 gp	2 lbs.
Chain Belt	15 gp	1/4 lb.

Keys

Item	Cost	Weight
Key, Copy	1 gp	–
Key, Skeleton	85 gp	–
Key, Wax Blank	15 gp	1/2 lb.

Copying a key (Pathfinder 1e): A craftsman can make a working duplicate in one hour. Producing an exact visual duplicate requires a skilled smith, a DC 25 Craft check and one day. A wax key blank takes an impression for a later copy, while a skeleton key attempts to open a keyed lock without its matching key. Pathfinder equipment source.

Locks

Item	Cost	Weight
Lock, Simple	20 gp	1 lb.
Lock, Average	40 gp	1 lb.
Lock, Good	80 gp	1 lb.
Lock, Superior	150 gp	1 lb.
Thunderstone Lock (Average)	110 gp	1 lb.
Thunderstone Lock (Good)	190 gp	1 lb.
Thunderstone Lock (Superior)	330 gp	1 lb.

Manacles

Item	Cost	Weight
Manacles	15 gp	2 lbs.
Manacles, False	65 gp	2 lbs.
Manacles, masterwork	50 gp	2 lbs.
Manacles, Mithral	1,000 gp	2 lbs.
Manacle Barbs	+15 gp	1 lb.
Fetters	15 gp	2 lbs.
Fetters, masterwork	50 gp	2 lbs.
Ropestaff	125 gp	1 lb.

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